The Columbia anthology of Japanese essays
Subtitle: zuihitsu from the tenth to the twenty-first century
By: edited and translated by Steven D. Carter
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 540
ISBN-13: 9780231167710; 9780231167703
Subjects: Japanese essays; Translations into English
Other titles: Japanese essays
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.

Translated from the Japanese.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Beginnings. The pillow book / Sei Shonagon; title: Essays in idleness / Yoshida No Kenko; title: The Late Medieval Era. Conversations with Shotetsu / Shotetsu; title: "To unify the nation and restore civil society" / Ichijo Kaneyoshi; title: "Cottage of dreams" and "Three loves" / Shohaku; title: A Tenbun miscellany / The Fujiwara Lay Monk; title: The Edo period. Laughs to keep you awake / Anrakuan Sakuden; title: "On Ohara" / Kinoshita Choshoshi; title: Haikai prose / Matsuo Basho; title: Amusements / Amenomori Hoshu; title: Window musings / Matsuzaki Kanran; title: A miscellany of stories / Morita Morimasa; title: Chats with myself / Dazai Shundai; title: Jeweled comb basket / Motoori Norinaga; title: Idle chats beneath a northern window / Tachibana Nankei; title: Blossoms and the moon / Matsudaira Sadanobu; title: Year by year: a miscellany / Ishiwara Masaakira; title: Behind the koto / Murata Harumi; title: Shunparo's jottings / Shiba Kokan; title: Unusual people of the modern age and Kanden's crop of jottings / Ban Kokei; title: Hoary stories / Tadano Makuzu; title: Haikai prose / Natsume Seibi; title: Clouds of floating grasses; title: The Modern Period. Autumn ensemble / Higuchi Ichiyo; title: "A cat's grave" and "London fog" / Natsume Soseki; title: "Snow" / Tokutomi Roka; title: "Desk" / Tayama Katai; title: "Fireworks" / Nagai Kafu; title: "Laughter" / Terada Torahiko; title: "Various thoughts on the Great Kanto earthquake" and "my moral precepts for everyday life" / Kikuchi Kan; title: "Master Hyakken's idle fantasies," "Bumpy road," and "A long fence" / Uchida Hyakken; title: "The image of an author" / Dazai Osamu; title: "Baby sparrow," "Turtledoves," and "Morning glories" / Shiga Naoya; title: Esprit and humor / Kawamori Yoshizo; title: "Sleepless nights" and "A bed for my books" / Osaragi Jiro; title: "On being down with a cold" / Kawakami Tetsutaro; title: "The road" / Shono Junzo; title: "Kitchen," "Raindrops," and "A memento of the season" / Koda Aya; title: "On surgery" and "Rainy day" / Kono Taeko; title: "Looking for gloves" / Mukoda Kuniko; title: One, we count, then / Takenishi Hiroko; title: Sunday musings / Hiraiwa Yumie; title: "Dust mogul" and other short essays / Dekune Tatsuro; title: "Myna bird" / Kizaki Satoko; title: "Concerning the order of culture" / Shiroyama Saburo; title: "On zuihitsu" / Sakai Junko.